Tag: Photography

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Mountain Man by Yaritza

Mountain man by Yaritza, student of Professor VIctoria Martin, Palm Beach State College

Yaritza created this fabulous work of art, and its title is the mountain man. Isn’t he beautiful?

Yes.
Yes, he is.

Yaritza is a fine artist who wanted to learn Photoshop because she realizes it’s so crucial for artists to know how to self promote and create digital artwork.  I mean, do you want to have to pay someone to create pieces for you, or would you like to know how to do it yourself? (I am a cheap-skate. Pocket the cash people!)
The colors, composition, and subject matter have a genuinely ethereal quality. Fabulous job, Yaritza. Keep going with the Photoshop work; you are amazingly talented and splendid things lay ahead in your artistic future.

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Feature Student: Rachelle

 I would like to share the work of another talented student: Rachelle. Today we had our critique in Photoshop 1. The students had to create a character and side kick/ villian, etc. After they completed the artwork the students had to create a book jacket (which has to be printed and fit onto an actual book). The students measure a book they own and set up their document to fit that individual book.  During crit student pass their books around the room so their classmates can appreciate the craftsmanship.

Next: the book has just gotten a movie deal. So they have to create a movie poster. And of course we know all movies advertise and have big splashy marketing campaigns. So the students also had to create no less than 2 swag pieces and a website mock up.

Rachelle painted her own face with body paint, photographed herself and then edited those photos in Photoshop.

As designers we often have to reshuffle artwork for different applications and media. Well done Rachelle.

professor victoria martin students work
professor victoria martin students work
professor victoria martin students work
professor victoria martin students work
professor victoria martin students work
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Student Feature: Joscheb

Today I would like to give a well deserved shout out to a super talented photographer and digital artist who just happens to be one of my students: Joscheb. He created the pieces below for my Digital Imagery for the Fine Artist class this semester. The image below was a digital collage and Joscheb a very gifted photographer used his own images. He made a composition and then we flip the work horizontally so it read backwards. The piece was printed to be used as an  image transfer. However, when we saw the work flipped; we flipped too! We loved it. His use of scale and color lead the eye through the composition.

professor victoria martin student work
professor victoria martin student work

The image above was also created by Joscheb. This is a traditional painting on top of one of his photographs. Being a fine artist I wanted to challenge the student to try new and different things. The brush work is so energetic. And just as an FYI: he used the background texture from this painting in the image above (he adjusted the colors and scale in Photoshop). So the next time you are working on a piece look to see what you can recycle in your work. Well done Joscheb and keep up the good work.